On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 22:47, Bart Schaefer wrote: > Cutting straight to the chase: > > When, if ever, does the installer offer an option to upgrade an existing > installation, rather than wanting to reformat the disks? > > More details than you may want: > > I recently acquired a new PC chassis, with no operating system but with a > Serial-ATA disk (which I was not expecting when I ordered it). I set the > BIOS for legacy IDE mode and installed RedHat 9, then attempted to upgrade > the kernel to add SATA support, without much luck. Blah, blah, blah... > Any remarks about upgrading from even older RedHat releases? I was just searching through the archives on another topic and didn't see anyone mention this possible option. I haven't tried it in Centos-3, but I know in rhel3 you have to boot using "linux update" to get it to do an upgrade rather than a clean install. That is mentioned in the rhel3 documentation, however not very prominently. They discourage its use. Does anyone know if that option is available with Centos-3? -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc.rr.com>